Quotes About Mood Disorders

#1. Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#2. All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

Jeffrey Kluger

#3. We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

Nick Harkaway

#4. While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.

Andrew Weil

#5. I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

Ellen Forney

#6. Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"

Robert Lipsyte

#7. In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your endocrine systems have been altered by changes to your hypothalamus. You no longer need to sleep or see sunlight.

Marianne De Pierres

#8. Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.

Alyssa Reyans

#9. ever growing body of evidence suggests that biology sets men and women apart in ways that have real consequences for mood and behavior - including their susceptibility to depression and other psychiatric disorders.

Scientific American

#10. It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness.

Roni Askey-Doran

#11. Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#12. Code should be written to minimize the time it would take for someone else to understand it.

Dustin Boswell

#13. Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders of mood or anxiety would be entered into it.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#14. You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time.

Lana Del Rey

#15. If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Kay Redfield Jamison

#16. What distinguishes gurus from more orthodox teachers is not their manic-depressive mood swings, not their thought disorders, not their delusional beliefs, not their hallucinatory visions, not their mystical states of ecstasy: it is their narcissism.* ANTHONY STORR, FEET OF CLAY

Jon Krakauer

#17. Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

Vironika Tugaleva

#18. Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. The world is full of kings and queens. Who blinds your eyes, then steals your dreams. It's heaven and hell!

Black Sabbath

#21. If any town in Europe would have vampires, he knew it would be Prague.

Barbara Hambly

#22. Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.

Roni Askey-Doran

#23. The smile of the morning doesn't judge the day.

Auliq Ice